Today's Justice Department statistics confirm that our strategy of
more police on the street and fewer guns in the hands of criminals is
working. Violent crime has now dropped by 27 percent since 1993, and
overall crime has fallen to an unprecedented low. We should stick to
this common sense strategy.

Unfortunately, some in Congress are willing to play politics with
our public safety, and threaten all of our progress. They want to shut
down our successful community policing efforts and riddle our gun laws
with dangerous new loopholes. To keep driving down the crime rates,
Congress should support more police on the street and fewer guns, not
more guns on the street and fewer police.